Matt Stoller on what Gorsuch means: Behind the gee golly goshes. J. Paul Kelleher on how Judge Gorsuch’s views on “natural law” could shape his opinions on the Supreme Court. In practice, Republicans abolished the Supreme Court filibuster in 2005 — and Mitch McConnell’s historically unprecedented and constitutionally illegitimate decision to block President Obama from nominating anyone a year before he left office was the real nuclear option.